Category: Video Artisan

Wash your mind out you naughty person!!!

I’m off to Cardiff on Wednesday to shoot the opening of a new depot for Beaver84 – a leading supplier of scaffolding, fencing and groundworks products both for hire and sale.  I’m doing this one in conjunction with my associates at N2 Visual Communications who do Beaver84’s design, website, SEO, branding and print work (and now video production – through your’s truly!).

It’s not a massive job at the moment – a few GVs, shots of their stock and facilities plus interviews with staff and customers. A full day shoot – plus the post to get it all in shape for their website.  We’re all hopeful that it’s going to lead on to something more involved – and lots of it!

Also had a great meeting this week with the guys at N2 about other projects in the pipeline.  I’ve worked with this company for about 17-years as they were the printers we used for the IOV’s Focus magazine and provide an otherwise unknown level of customer care in the print and design industry (to me anyway).  I’ve done a fair bit of freelance writing for them on websites and brochures in the past – and also got involved in various video projects with them over the years.

I’m going to be starting production on a short teaser video for them in a couple of weeks – and once this is done they’ll be pumping video production services out to their extensive client base.

PS.  Brilliant N2 logo by the way.  What mastermind came up with that concept??? : )

If you are reading this you probably already know – but I completed my Video Artisan website refurbishment this week – moving away from my stark grey html preliminary site to something a little more colourful.  I did say “a little more colourful”!!!

OK – not an earth shattering change but a bit more eye catching and logical me thinks – certainly for someone involved in a visual medium such as video production.  Its also mobile device-friendly which is ever so important these days.  It should also be a bit more search-engine friendly (I hope).

Enjoy – and let me know if you spot any Cookerisms!

The brief was quite simple – to produce a 2 to 3-minute video, cut to music, for their exhibition stand at the forthcoming Blackpool Dance Festival. The purpose was to highlight Supadance‘s “made in the UK” heritage and to help augment their position as the world’s number one manufacturer of dance shoes. The Supadance video would also be placed on their website – and also on the website of their worldwide network of distributors and retailers.

Supadance – Shoes for Dance

The clients are extremely happy with the end result, which was signed off with only a couple of very minor changes.  They are so happy in fact that they’ve started talking to me about the next video – which will be an extension of ‘Shoes for Dance’.

My thanks go to everyone at their warehouse and factory who made my job relatively easy.  A really nice company to deal with.

Credits & Kit Info
Script to screen service by Kevin Cook.  It took 2-days to film (one day at their factory, 1/2 day at their warehouse/showroom and 1/2 day in studio doing some pack shots) and 2-days to edit. Shot on Canon 550D with Magic Lantern Hack and edited on Edius 4.6. Music by AKM Music (Orchestral Themes – Impact / Track 2 ‘Heroic’).